Manassas Battlefield/Solitary Sandpiper
BlkVulture@aol.com
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:25:48 EDT
Hello all,
This morning my father Mike and I birded the MBNP. We entered at the Stone
Bridge at about 8:45am. We stayed until 10:45. The temp started at about
60, up to as high as about 70. Light breeze from the west.
New arrival for me was a single Solitary Sandpiper. The bird was seen wading
and bobbing in the mud in Bull Run.
The list:
Canada Goose (4)
Sharp-shinned Hawk (1)
Solitary Sandpiper (1)
Common Snipe (8)
Mourning Dove (3)
Belted Kingfisher (1)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (4)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1)
Downy Woodpecker (5)
Hairy Woodpecker (2)
Northern Flicker (6)
Eastern Phoebe (3)
Tree Swallow (1)
Blue Jay (2)
American Crow (10)
Carolina Chickadee (15) 2 entering a cavity
Tufted Titmouse (6)
White-breasted Nuthatch (1)
Carolina Wren (4)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2) both singing
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (3)
Eastern Bluebird (2)
American Robin (8)
Brown Thrasher (1)
European Starling (20)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (65)
Pine Warbler (6)
Northern Cardinal (5)
Eastern Towhee (1)
Field Sparrow (9)
Savannah Sparrow (20)
Song Sparrow (1)
Red-winged Blackbird (2)
Eastern Meadowlark (1)
Common Grackle (2)
Brown-headed Cowbird (7)
American Goldfinch (8)
Todd Day
Jeffersonton, VA
BlkVulture@aol.com